Royal Challengers Bangalore v Chennai Super Kings (RCB v CSK) Prediction & Betting Tips

The dismal performance from Royal Challengers Bangalore continued in the Indian Premier League, 2015 when they were beaten in their previous game by Mumbai Indians with a difference of 18 runs. That was the second defeat suffered by RCB in three games and they must be desperate to clinch their next match vs. Chennai Super Kings. The latter tasted their maiden loss of the event when they were crushed by Rajasthan Royals by a huge deficit of eight wickets. However, they are still placed at the second spot with six points from four matches.

Players to watch

David Wiese and AB de Villiers scored 47 and 41 runs in the last game vs. Mumbai Indians and rest of the batsmen were dismissed in their twenties. They require big innings from Chris Gayle, Virat Kohli, Manvinder Bisla and Rilee Rossouw. Yuzvendra Chachal and David Wiese have taken 5 and 4 wickets respectively while rest of their bowlers must learn from them.

Dwayne Bravo, Dwayne Smith and MS Dhoni contributed 62, 40 and 31 as Brendon McCullum is in good nick. Suresh Raina and Faf du Plessis are not keeping up their promise whereas Bravo, Ashish Nehra, Mohit Sharma, Ishwar Pandey, Ravichandran Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja are looking after their bowling.

Time & Venue

Wednesday, April 22, 2015 @ 14:30 GMT, 20:00 local at M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore.

Weather

Partly cloudy with the temperatures around 22-35ᵒC.

Toss

RCB will prefer to field and CSK can opt to bat after winning the toss.

The Pitch

The wicket responded equally well for the bowlers and batsmen in the 16^th match of the tournament played between RCB and MI.

Teams

Royal Challengers Bangalore – Virat Kohli (C), Chris Gayle, Dinesh Karthik, Manvinder Bisla, AB de Villiers, Rilee Rossouw, David Wiese, Iqbal Abdulla, Abu Nechim, Yuzvendra Chachal, Varun Aaron.

Chennai Super Kings – MS Dhoni (C), Dwayne Smith, Brendon McCullum, Suresh Raina, Faf du Plessis, Ravindra Jadeja, Dwayne Bravo, Ravichandran Ashwin, Mohit Sharma, Ishwar Pandey, Ashish Nehra.

Prediction

CSK might be the possible winners in the forthcoming encounter.